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UNICEF & ROTARY to raise funds globally to procure medicines for Sri Lanka Dear Friends, Relations and Classmates living in Australia., Like in the past, I hope you could  help me with this project too. Kindly pass this to many Sri Lankans living in Australia and all our relations. I am sure they all will help. This is a very urgent and humanitarian project, bringing a partnership between UNICEF & ROTARY to raise funds globally to procure medicines for Sri Lanka, chaired  by K.Ravindran former International President of The Rotary, a classmate of mine. Now almost 200 medical items are in shortage, including 76 essential, life-saving drugs, from blood-thinners for heart attack and stroke patients to antibiotics, rabies vaccines and cancer chemotherapy drugs. Essential surgical equipment and anaesthesia is running out so fast that the decision was made  for only emergency surgeries, mostly heart and cancer patients, to go ahead. All routine surgeries ...